... The Spanish Crown and the Defense of the Caribbean, 1535–1585 (1980) provides some additional perspectives but has a different focus than Menéndez’s biography. Only the letters here reprinted from Eugenio Ruidiaz y Caravía’s La Florida: Su conquista y colonización por Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (2 vols...

... Merás, whose sixteenth-century account was first transcribed and published in Spanish by Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia in 1893 and subsequently translated into English by Jeannette Thurber Connor in 1923. Though later transcriptions and translations have been made, these first two have without doubt been...

... of Menéndez. It was not published until 1893 when it was included in Eugenio Ruidíaz’ study of Florida and Menéndez. In 1923 it was published in English, translated and annotated by the late Jeannette Thurber Connor under the auspices of the defunct Florida State Historical Society of which the celebrated...

... with the author’s summary of events. Another major source is the documents published by Eugenio Ruidiaz y Caravía in 1893. Given these sources, it is not surprising that the major part of the book covers the years 1565 to 1567, with briefer coverage of Menéndez de Avilés’ youth and his final seven years. The story...

... to the interior; 24 —on March 25, 1800, 18 peons under capataz Ruidíaz were sent out from Buenos Aires; —and on April 1, 1800, 13 additional peons, apparently from the surrounding area, arrived for branding, but not being enough, 21 more men were dispatched from Buenos Aires on April 18. 25...